I'm not an expert on such matters, but this might be grounds to get their corporate council disbarred. I know that lawyers generally avoid this as a matter of professional courtesy, but what they're doing here may be an ethics violation.
50 seconds to load on an Athlon 1900+? Well, there's your problem. I'm using an Athlon 2000+ and it takes me about 4 seconds, again without quickstart. I think you need a faster processor.
Anyone working with very large amounts of very small data should be using a database. That's what databases are designed for, and heavily optimized for. If you want file system access to the database, there's nothing stopping you from doing this. I know there are linux kernel patches that will access SQL databases. Turning the whole filesystem into a database is a compatibility nightmare waiting to happen. You don't need database optimizations for storing files like/etc/fstab, and if you do, you've got other problems.
Yes, some of these experimental filesystems are returning some interesting results and creating some nice niche capabilities, but personally the filesystem he describes being well suited only for very large files is exactly what I and a great many other people need. Anything small is cached in memory. The only small-write function I need is the file system journal.
At my school, they've even got Halon in one of the public computer labs. Of course, you have to have a research account or a EE account to actually use the Ultrasparc II workstations, but any idiot could walk in and pull the alarm. Given some of the stuff in there, I'd say they had the system in place a long, long time ago. While it might make sense in the university's main server room, where you can break a million dollars worth of equipment with a cherry bomb, now that even high-end workstations are pretty cheap, I doubt they'll ever install any new fire suppression systems in the labs.
They're naming an aircraft carrier after a guy who oversaw one of the largest peacetime military expansions in history. At least that's better than naming an airport after a guy who fired half the nation's air traffic controllers.
You need to get someone in marketing to sign something as part of the normal review process in your development cycle that has something like "Beta" or "Experimental" written all over it. If they refuse, you refuse to ship. If management has a problem with this, you can show them the working quick and dirty solution that marketing refuses to slap a "1.0" label on. Marketing is a proxy for your customer. Just because they're inside your company doesn't mean you should trust them any more.
...where if you set the command prompt in Windows XP in fullscreen mode, turn your PC speakers up to full power, are using a USB mouse and a PS/2 keyboard, have Windows Media Player 9 in the background playing streaming content, and hit the windows key on the keyboard, ICBMs are launched from Redmond to a spot on the earth corresponding to where on a Mercator projection your mouse was on the screen before you full-screened the command prompt.
It's never actually happened, but they were doing a design review and realized there was a potential flaw in the system. Better install those service packs.
Uh, that sounds like perfectly reasonable, expressive use of technical terminology. He was even kind enough to define "transonic" for us. If you had a hard time deciphering it, I suggest taking a nap. I once worked on a solar car project with some people whose technical knowledge was far beyond my own, but I could always decipher their lingo if I was wide awake.
SCO is alleging that IBM put AIX code into their linux products. They've already backed down from the claim that that code made it into the mainstream kernel. If they're raising it again they'll get nowhere. As far as I know, Red Hat and SuSE do not have contracts with SCO, so SCO doesn't have a leg to stand on. I'm not worried. You shouldn't be either, though SCO wants you to be (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt). This case is nothing compared to the MS antitrust case, and we all know how much that changed things.
The outcome of the SCO vs. IBM case will have little to no bearing on the adoption of linux. SCO is just trying to bully IBM into buying them out. Even if IBM loses, and loses big, the rest of us won't notice. If anything, this could even further linux development, in the off chance that IBM is forced to stop distributing AIX if they are found in violation of their license agreement with SCO.
Google for wiki. It's a website that anyone can change, keeping a changelog of course. You could have a lot of fun with one (or a few) of those, especially if any type of creative writing is to be going on.
Throw two balloon-covered blobs of clay at each other fast enough, say 10 m/s or so, and they'll break the barrier keeping them apart and stick together. That's fusion. Fling them at each other at 99% the speed of light, and when they hit, all sorts of interesting things will go flying off in various directions. That's what happened in this experiment. Fusion is as irrelevant here as oxidation/reduction. The energy level is just far too enormous. What's interesting here is that something is absorbing some of the stuff that should be flying off in various directions, which means that they're creating something more dense than the stuff that's there to begin with.
I took ritalin from 6th grade through 12th grade, and then I quit for college. My GPA was less than spectacular (but not horrible either) for the first few semesters, but I got my act together, and I think it's worth it. Why, do you ask? I got tired of being two different people, one on the medicine and one off. When on the medicine, I missed the distraction. As much as it can be a hindrance to work, it also makes me much more creative. If you're doing a lot of group work, and have other people to double-check you, being off the medication can be a boost to the process.
Important note: I took Ritalin for 7 years, and couldn't possibly have gotten where I am today if I hadn't done it or something like it. It may take several years to get used to ADD or ADHD, but Ritalin helps in the process. Hopefully you'll be able to get off it like I did, but it's also quite possible that I was luckier than you'll be. In any case, the nice thing about ritalin is that it's not a 24/7 drug. Even if you take the 12 hour time release kind, that still gives you the evening and weekends to be your traditional wild self. Furthermore, many people actually feel more like themself when on the medicine and take it even when it's not necessary for work.
In short, don't worry about it a whole lot. You got diagnosed and you're getting treated, which is the important part.
Okay, take a piece of foam with lots of air-catching pockets and dimples. Toss it into a hypermach slipstream. Watch it accelerate at dozens of Gs to be going 530 miles an hour after travelling about the length of a space shuttle.
Sure, this test with the mockup isn't 100% true to reality, but it's not at all an unreasonable simulation to get a rough idea of what could happen.
Nowhere in this article does it say they're doing anything over IP. If I had to take a shot in the dark, I'd guess they were using something like ATM, which has all sorts of wonderful properties for real-time communication, and more closely resembles circuit switching (in the good ways) than any kind of IP connection. I've heard rumors to the effect that IPv6 allows for some of these properties, but no form of IP will ever do what ATM does, for lots of very good reasons.
I think Telus is nuts to use IP. I hope they succeed, but I still think they're nuts.
Seriously, if you're trying to innovate, just go out and do it. Nobody's stopping you. Standards groups are around to prevent total havoc from reigning when you foist your innovation on the unsuspecting public. If your "innovation" requires having thousands of users to really get anywhere, then maybe you'd better publish a paper. Either that or sell it in a black box so your bugs won't perpetuate in later products. If you can't make it to market and you can't make it in the academic circles, then whatever stifling effect the standards group has had is for the public good. I like tinkering with my machines and occasionally watch them break in novel ways, but there are an enormous number of people whose livelihoods and safety depend on reliable operation of these systems, and the standards groups help protect them.
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I saw it last night. It was definitely part 2 of 3. It was not really a self-sustaining movie (at least by the standards of the first) so much as it was a gargantuan plot twist between the beginning and the end. Unlike Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, which had no need to hide from the viewer what was going on, The Matrix Reloaded is full of confusion that keeps it from really being its own movie. This really bothered some people. If Matrix Revolutions weren't coming out in six months, I'd be bothered too, but it is, so I'll deal with it. Of course, I still don't know what happened. The storyline seems to be disintegrating like Mulholland Drive. I guess I'll find out in November.
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I'm not an expert on such matters, but this might be grounds to get their corporate council disbarred. I know that lawyers generally avoid this as a matter of professional courtesy, but what they're doing here may be an ethics violation.
50 seconds to load on an Athlon 1900+? Well, there's your problem. I'm using an Athlon 2000+ and it takes me about 4 seconds, again without quickstart. I think you need a faster processor.
At least they're going to criminalize false domain registration info. Maybe if we strip out about half of the Act it'll actually do some good.
Anyone working with very large amounts of very small data should be using a database. That's what databases are designed for, and heavily optimized for. If you want file system access to the database, there's nothing stopping you from doing this. I know there are linux kernel patches that will access SQL databases. Turning the whole filesystem into a database is a compatibility nightmare waiting to happen. You don't need database optimizations for storing files like /etc/fstab, and if you do, you've got other problems.
Yes, some of these experimental filesystems are returning some interesting results and creating some nice niche capabilities, but personally the filesystem he describes being well suited only for very large files is exactly what I and a great many other people need. Anything small is cached in memory. The only small-write function I need is the file system journal.
At my school, they've even got Halon in one of the public computer labs. Of course, you have to have a research account or a EE account to actually use the Ultrasparc II workstations, but any idiot could walk in and pull the alarm. Given some of the stuff in there, I'd say they had the system in place a long, long time ago. While it might make sense in the university's main server room, where you can break a million dollars worth of equipment with a cherry bomb, now that even high-end workstations are pretty cheap, I doubt they'll ever install any new fire suppression systems in the labs.
Damn near every installer out there uses bf2.4, just not the official one, so far as I can tell.
Yeah, and if they were steel workers, and he fired half of them, it would be a bad idea to name a steel plant after him too.
They're naming an aircraft carrier after a guy who oversaw one of the largest peacetime military expansions in history. At least that's better than naming an airport after a guy who fired half the nation's air traffic controllers.
So, maybe by 2005 we'll see the official Debian installer using a 2.4 kernel?
You need to get someone in marketing to sign something as part of the normal review process in your development cycle that has something like "Beta" or "Experimental" written all over it. If they refuse, you refuse to ship. If management has a problem with this, you can show them the working quick and dirty solution that marketing refuses to slap a "1.0" label on. Marketing is a proxy for your customer. Just because they're inside your company doesn't mean you should trust them any more.
Poor? We've been trying to figure out how to shock users over the phone for YEARS!
...where if you set the command prompt in Windows XP in fullscreen mode, turn your PC speakers up to full power, are using a USB mouse and a PS/2 keyboard, have Windows Media Player 9 in the background playing streaming content, and hit the windows key on the keyboard, ICBMs are launched from Redmond to a spot on the earth corresponding to where on a Mercator projection your mouse was on the screen before you full-screened the command prompt.
It's never actually happened, but they were doing a design review and realized there was a potential flaw in the system. Better install those service packs.
Uh, that sounds like perfectly reasonable, expressive use of technical terminology. He was even kind enough to define "transonic" for us. If you had a hard time deciphering it, I suggest taking a nap. I once worked on a solar car project with some people whose technical knowledge was far beyond my own, but I could always decipher their lingo if I was wide awake.
SCO is alleging that IBM put AIX code into their linux products. They've already backed down from the claim that that code made it into the mainstream kernel. If they're raising it again they'll get nowhere. As far as I know, Red Hat and SuSE do not have contracts with SCO, so SCO doesn't have a leg to stand on. I'm not worried. You shouldn't be either, though SCO wants you to be (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt). This case is nothing compared to the MS antitrust case, and we all know how much that changed things.
The outcome of the SCO vs. IBM case will have little to no bearing on the adoption of linux. SCO is just trying to bully IBM into buying them out. Even if IBM loses, and loses big, the rest of us won't notice. If anything, this could even further linux development, in the off chance that IBM is forced to stop distributing AIX if they are found in violation of their license agreement with SCO.
Google for wiki. It's a website that anyone can change, keeping a changelog of course. You could have a lot of fun with one (or a few) of those, especially if any type of creative writing is to be going on.
Throw two balloon-covered blobs of clay at each other fast enough, say 10 m/s or so, and they'll break the barrier keeping them apart and stick together. That's fusion. Fling them at each other at 99% the speed of light, and when they hit, all sorts of interesting things will go flying off in various directions. That's what happened in this experiment. Fusion is as irrelevant here as oxidation/reduction. The energy level is just far too enormous. What's interesting here is that something is absorbing some of the stuff that should be flying off in various directions, which means that they're creating something more dense than the stuff that's there to begin with.
And that's pretty cool!
I took ritalin from 6th grade through 12th grade, and then I quit for college. My GPA was less than spectacular (but not horrible either) for the first few semesters, but I got my act together, and I think it's worth it. Why, do you ask? I got tired of being two different people, one on the medicine and one off. When on the medicine, I missed the distraction. As much as it can be a hindrance to work, it also makes me much more creative. If you're doing a lot of group work, and have other people to double-check you, being off the medication can be a boost to the process.
Important note: I took Ritalin for 7 years, and couldn't possibly have gotten where I am today if I hadn't done it or something like it. It may take several years to get used to ADD or ADHD, but Ritalin helps in the process. Hopefully you'll be able to get off it like I did, but it's also quite possible that I was luckier than you'll be. In any case, the nice thing about ritalin is that it's not a 24/7 drug. Even if you take the 12 hour time release kind, that still gives you the evening and weekends to be your traditional wild self. Furthermore, many people actually feel more like themself when on the medicine and take it even when it's not necessary for work.
In short, don't worry about it a whole lot. You got diagnosed and you're getting treated, which is the important part.
"How can I turn this into a thesis?"
Okay, take a piece of foam with lots of air-catching pockets and dimples. Toss it into a hypermach slipstream. Watch it accelerate at dozens of Gs to be going 530 miles an hour after travelling about the length of a space shuttle.
Sure, this test with the mockup isn't 100% true to reality, but it's not at all an unreasonable simulation to get a rough idea of what could happen.
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Nowhere in this article does it say they're doing anything over IP. If I had to take a shot in the dark, I'd guess they were using something like ATM, which has all sorts of wonderful properties for real-time communication, and more closely resembles circuit switching (in the good ways) than any kind of IP connection. I've heard rumors to the effect that IPv6 allows for some of these properties, but no form of IP will ever do what ATM does, for lots of very good reasons.
I think Telus is nuts to use IP. I hope they succeed, but I still think they're nuts.
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Seriously, if you're trying to innovate, just go out and do it. Nobody's stopping you. Standards groups are around to prevent total havoc from reigning when you foist your innovation on the unsuspecting public. If your "innovation" requires having thousands of users to really get anywhere, then maybe you'd better publish a paper. Either that or sell it in a black box so your bugs won't perpetuate in later products. If you can't make it to market and you can't make it in the academic circles, then whatever stifling effect the standards group has had is for the public good. I like tinkering with my machines and occasionally watch them break in novel ways, but there are an enormous number of people whose livelihoods and safety depend on reliable operation of these systems, and the standards groups help protect them.
"Huh, that's not supposed to happen..."
I saw it last night. It was definitely part 2 of 3. It was not really a self-sustaining movie (at least by the standards of the first) so much as it was a gargantuan plot twist between the beginning and the end. Unlike Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, which had no need to hide from the viewer what was going on, The Matrix Reloaded is full of confusion that keeps it from really being its own movie. This really bothered some people. If Matrix Revolutions weren't coming out in six months, I'd be bothered too, but it is, so I'll deal with it. Of course, I still don't know what happened. The storyline seems to be disintegrating like Mulholland Drive. I guess I'll find out in November.